People stand in front of the nine-story Yuanxiang commercial-residential building badly damaged in a fire at the Hanzhengjie Wholesale Market in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 6, 2009. Fan Junhui, a 35-year-old worker hired by a shop in the building, was dead in the fire hitting the building on Thursday, Tan Renjie, spokesman of the Wuhan municipal government, told a press conference on Friday. Fifteen people, including 11 civilians and four firefighters and police officers, were hospitalized for smoke inhalation or sprains. (Chinese media/Xiong Jinchao)
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WUHAN, Feb. 6 (Chinese media) -- A 35-year-old man was
killed in a fire at a mixed commercial-residential building in downtown Wuhan
City, central China's Hubei Province.
Fan Junhui, a worker hired by a shop in the building,
was found dead by firefighters at 7 a.m. Friday in a warehouse on the third
floor of the nine-story Yuanxiang Building, said Tan Renjie, spokesman of the
Wuhan municipal government at a press conference.
Fifteen people, including 11 civilians and four
firefighters and police officers, were hospitalized for smoke inhalation or
sprains. Eight will be discharged from the hospital Friday.
One 88-year-old woman, who suffers from anemia and
lung inflammation, was in life-threatening condition.
The fire broke out in a plastic products warehouse on
the second floor of Yuanxiang Building in the Hanzhengjie Wholesale Market at
about 9:50 a.m. Thursday.
It was extinguished around 11 p.m. on same day after
more than 800 firefighters along with 79 fire engines were dispatched to the
scene.
The ground, second and third floors are a mix of
stores and warehouses. The rest of the building is residential, with 753 people
in 177 households living there.
Most residents were evacuated to homes of their
relatives, while 107 others were accommodated at four hotels for free near the
Hanzhengjie Wholesale Market.
Police were investigating the cause of the fire and
the local government was assessing the loss.
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